BABAR Reference and Migration Platforms
5 November 1998
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Introduction
Reference and Migration Platforms represent the set of computers used to develop and test code within BABAR. A "reference platform" is a computer architecture that is fully-supported by the BABAR computing organization; code is expected to
compile/link/execute perperly. A "migration platform" is one that is unsupported, but is expected to receive full support at some time in the future. A "private platform" is an unsupported platform that may or may not become supported at a future date;
essentially no effort is expended by the BABAR computing organization to investigate this class of machines.
This page lists machines available for BABAR use. Some of these machines are owned and operated by the SLAC Computing Services (SCS), while others may be scattered around the collaboration. The SCS portion of the Porting Lab (i.e. most of it) is
supported by the High-Performance Computing Group of SCS. It is located at the third floor of SLAC Computer building. The contact person is Randy Melen (randym@slac.stanford.edu), although BABAR users should contact Terry Hung (terryh@slac.stanford.edu) rather than SCS.
It is expected that these machines will typically be used by package coordinators who wish to verify the functioning of their software packages prior to tagging a new release; by the release coordinator to build new releases; by architecture
specialists to understand and solve problems associated with a specific platform; and, by users wishing to develop code.
The following list includes the IP name (all are .slac.stanford.edu, unless otherwise noted) for each platform.
Reference Platforms
Migration Platforms (possible/probable future support)
Private Platforms (not supported or maintained by BABAR)
Maintained by Terry Hung and Paul Raines. Send suggestions and additions to
terryh@slac.stanford.edu, or raines@slac.stanford.edu.
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